To introduce the scene, Miller uses a seemingly unrelated flashback of Matt's youth : when he was seven, he saw a man named Guido Contavespi pushed through the window of a bakery shop. He ended with a splinter of glass shoved in his chest. When he pulled it out, his lung was sucking blood and air and the bakery's owner came with waxed paper to try to slow down the sucking...

We don't get to see Matt at his most heroic, but the scene, though a bit too cliché, makes him a very human character (some would say a stone cold player and a jerk but that's just a p.o.v.), more relatable than many heroes.